By Vanessa Jalleh
A 30-YEAR-OLD man was sentenced on Monday to fines totalling
$212,000 or to a jail term of more than two years for several
custom offences.
In June this year, Singaporean Yeo Hock Leong pleaded guilty to
20 charges of incorrect declaration of value of 79,262 mobile
phones imported into Singapore. The remaining 78 charges were taken
into consideration.
The Goods & Services Tax evasion exceeded $182,000.
Yeo, the director of Vision Your Gadgets Station, was also
convicted for one count of abetting in the offence of obstructing
Customs officers in the seizure of goods, and one count of failing
to retain trade documents.
Two of Yeo's employees - Ong Soon Leng, 30 and Cheng Zhiyi, 26 -
were also convicted for obstructing customs officers when they came
to seize the goods.
Both men were each fined $6,000 or in default, three weeks of
imprisonment.